Russell Crowe's Star-Studded Western Scores a Bullseye on Free Streaming
A revisionist Western directed by Sam Raimi is streaming for free more than three decades after its theatrical release.
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Microsoft’s quantum chip upgrade draws praise and skepticism
Microsoft says a materials swap improved a key topological qubit metric from milliseconds to about 20 seconds. Some physicists see progress; critics say the preprint does not prove a topological qubit or Majoranas.
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Jason Statham’s ‘Mutiny’ Hits No. 1 on Prime Video After Weak Box Office
Jason Statham’s $40 million action thriller Mutiny has become a major hit on Prime Video less than three weeks after it opened in theaters, despite falling short of its break-even point at the global box office.
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CERN shuts down the Large Hadron Collider for a major transformation
The particle smasher famously enabled the discovery of the Higgs boson.
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Plugged-in pickles glow. Science may explain why
The scientific party trick results from tiny blasts ignited by sparks, experiments suggest.
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Gluons may carry the proton’s baryon number, collision study suggests
A new study suggests gluons, not quarks, carry the proton’s baryon number. Data from nuclear collisions at RHIC matched a Y-shaped gluon junction better than the quark model, researchers report in Science, though physicists say the evidence is not yet definitive.
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